DHS credits the administration policy as the lowest apprehensions prior to this past April were in December of 2011. This new low is 7,000 apprehensions less than the previous. In a year since April 2016, apprehensions were down 62%, though there are multiple different reasons for such a change. Throughout these slides you can find the monthly summaries of apprehensions by sector in a time series from 2000 to 2017 depicting the changes throughout time. But first, on the next slide will be the video linked to this report.
